Media Awareness Project Drug News

New York Times, 23 Jan 2002 - ODESSA, Ukraine -- No one outside a small sympathetic circle knows that Iren is infected with H.I.V., not even her mother. Telling, she said, would only "make trouble." It would also invite unkind assumptions, given the way AIDS has cut through Ukraine, the nation with the worst problem in a region where the disease is spreading with alarming speed. "People would think I used drugs or I was a prostitute," said Iren, who asked that her full name not be printed.

ITAR-TASS, 23 Mar 1999 - KIEV, March 23 (Itar-Tass) - The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry does not have information on the detention of a Ukrainian Il-76 plane in Peru on suspicion of transporting narcotic drugs. Acting ministry spokesman Igor Grushko neither confirmed nor refuted the related press reports on Tuesday. Ukraine does not have an embassy in that Latin American country.

Reuters, 11 Jan 1999 - KHMELNITSKY, Ukraine, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Drug addicts tending pigs and chickens at a top secret Soviet nuclear missile base - - the very idea would have had Cold War generals packing their bags for Siberia. Yet that pastoral scene has become a reality at the former base of the Red Army's Fifth Strategic Missile Regiment, hidden away among the hills and barren fields of western Ukraine.